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quiii, both in Colombia, South America. Plate 66 represents a cbosen 

 collection of gold ornaments from Costa Rica, from a pliotograph fur- 

 nished by Senor A, Alfaro, the objects being from the Costa Rican 

 Museum. The art of gold working is shown by the objects in the plates 

 and does not require lengthy or detailed description. Plate 67 repre- 

 sents a series of gold objects reported from the Chibca tribe of Indians, 

 Bogota, Colombia, belonging to the Ruiz-Randall collection.' 



It is not necessary to discuss the question of art any further in this 

 connection, especially as has been mentioiied in the introduction, it 

 has been treated in its relation to certain materials by various persons, 



Fis. 165. 

 DETAILS OF MODE OF FASTENINU HOLLAR AND UIIACELET, FIGS. 162,163. 



especially by Prof. W. H. Holmes, formerly of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 equally renowned as an archicologist and as an artist, and by his famil- 

 iarity with these two subjects is probably as well qualified to deal with 

 it as any one in the United States. 



Since the preparation of tliis paper the following volumes on aborig- 

 inal art in North America have been published : " Decorative Art of the 

 Indians of the North Pacific Coast," by Franz Boas, in the Bulletins of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. IX, Article X, pp. 123- 

 176, New York, May 24, 1897; and " The Graphic Art of the Eskimos," 

 by Walter James Hoffman, M. I)., in Report of the U. S. National 

 Museum, 1895, pp. 739-968. 



1 Century Magazine, October, 1891, XLII, No. 6, pp. 879-892. 



